Marine feeding areas and vertical movements of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) as inferred from recoveries of data storage tags

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1087-1098

  Guðjónsson, Sigurður ^a   Einarsson, Sigurður Már ^a   Jónsson, Ingi Rúnar ^a   Guðbrandsson, Jóhannes ^a  

^a Institute of Freshwater Fisheries Reykjavik   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIURNAL ACTIVITY; FEEDING GROUND; HATCHERY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; SALMONID; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SMOLT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; FAROE ISLANDS; ICELAND; IRMINGER SEA;

SALMO SALAR;

EID: 84933041152     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: 12057533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjfas-2014-0562     Document Type: Article

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